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رقعه گر بر پر مرغی دوختی ** پر مرغ از تف رقعه سوختی 4755
- If he sewed the letter on the wing of a bird, the bird's wing would be burnt by the ardour of the letter.
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راههای چاره را غیرت ببست ** لشکر اندیشه را رایت شکست
- The (Divine) jealousy barred (all) the ways of device and broke the banner of the army of cogitation.
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بود اول مونس غم انتظار ** آخرش بشکست کی هم انتظار
- At first, expectation was the comforting friend of (his) sorrow; at last, there broke him—who? Even (the same) expectation.
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گاه گفتی کین بلای بی‌دواست ** گاه گفتی نه حیات جان ماست
- Sometimes he would say, “This is an irremediable affliction”; sometimes he would say, “No, it is the life of my spirit.”
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گاه هستی زو بر آوردی سری ** گاه او از نیستی خوردی بری
- Sometimes (self-) existence would lift up a head from him (appear in him); sometimes he would eat of the fruit of non-existence.
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چونک بر وی سرد گشتی این نهاد ** جوش کردی گرم چشمه‌ی اتحاد 4760
- When this (bodily) nature became cold (irksome and useless) to him, the fountain of union (with the beloved) would boil hotly.
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چونک با بی‌برگی غربت بساخت ** برگ بی‌برگی به سوی او بتاخت
- When he put up with (contented himself with) the unprovidedness of exile, the provision of unprovidedness hastened towards him.
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خوشه‌های فکرتش بی‌کاه شد ** شب‌روان را رهنما چون ماه شد
- The wheat-ears of his thought were purged of chaff: he became, like the moon, a guide to the night-travellers.
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ای بسا طوطی گویای خمش ** ای بسا شیرین‌روان رو ترش
- Oh, there is many a parrot that speaks though it is mute; oh, there is many a sweet-spirited one whose face is sour.
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رو به گورستان دمی خامش نشین ** آن خموشان سخن‌گو را ببین
- Go to the graveyard, sit awhile in silence, and behold those eloquent silent ones;